Marjorie Ruth Dilley

4 June 2001 − Ruth

STYLES OF RATIONALITY Ruth

By whatever general principles and mechanisms animal behavior is governed, human behavior control rides piggyback on top of the same or very similar mechanisms. We have reflexes. We can be conditioned. The movements that make up our smaller actions are mostly caught up in perception-action cycles following perceived Gibsonian affordances. Still, without doubt there are levels of behavior contro...

Marjorie Taylor: Children's imaginary companions

Sergei Nirenburg Marjorie McShane Stephen

In this paper, we briefly and informally illustrate, using a few annotated examples, the static and dynamic knowledge resources of ontological semantics. We then present the main motivations and desiderata of our approach and then discuss issues related to making ontological-semantic applications feasible through the judicious stepwise enhancement of static and dynamic knowledge sources while a...

Pancreatic Transplantation, the 8th Marjorie Budd Lecture

Though the introduction of insulin in 1922 immediately transformed the management of diabetes, allowing diabetics to survive with their disease, the microvascular complications of the disease became increasingly evident with time. Thus insulin-dependent or type 1 diabetes is the fifth major cause of renal failure, the major cause of blindness, and coronary heart disease is a major cause of deat...